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Wall Street magic has also touched Julio and Olivia Garcia, the founders of Garcia's of Scottsdale, Ariz, (fiscal 1981 sales: $11.7 million). The couple parlayed a Mexican-food take-out they opened in 1956 into a fortune that includes some 240,000 shares of Garcia's stock, worth about $1.7 million...
...middle ground between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal, 83, who shared...
...Laureate Garcia Robles, on the other hand, has pursued a low-profile path to the same ends. A diminutive, soft-spoken Mexican career diplomat, Garcia Robles joined his country's foreign service in 1939 (his first posting: Sweden). Involved in the San Francisco Conference of 1945 that founded the U.N., he filled a variety of posts before presiding in 1965 over the first Latin American convention, held in Mexico City, on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Two years later, he proudly oversaw the signing of the Tlatelolco Treaty. (That document, however, still has only symbolic significance: the two countries...
...Garcia Robles co-authored the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that has now been signed by 115 nations. Since 1962, he has represented Mexico at the U.N.'s Disarmament Committee in Geneva, where he and Alva Myrdal became firm friends. Currently he is the chairman of the committee. The author of more than 20 books and some 300 articles on foreign affairs, Garcia Robles is said by acquaintances to be "obsessed" with the disarmament issue. The Nobel Committee's choice, says he, clearly demonstrates the world's growing concern for disarmament "in spite of our very modest achievements...
...Gabrief Garcia Marquez: This man will cop the prize someday sure as my grandmother lives in Forest Hills, N.Y. For one thing, he is from Colombia, and Colombia has never had a winner. One of my many theories is that the Swedish academy picks the name of a country out of a ski hat and worries about finding a writer from there to shower with all those krona. One day Colombia will come up and Marquees will be it. Right now, though, he's just too young, Also, he spends too much of his time writing lefty journalism, In Stockholm...